Before the age of electricity, city streets were lit by gas lamps. Lamplighters lit these lamps with a flaming torch. One night, an old man stood looking across a valley to a town on a hillside. He could see the torch of a lamplighter lighting lamps as he went. But because of the darkness, he could not see the lamplighter. he could see only his torch and the trail of lights he left behind. The old man said to a friend standing next to him: "That lamp lighter is a good example of how Christians ought to live. You may never have known them. But you know that they passed through the world by the trail of lights they left behind." From "Challenge," a daily meditation program based on The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 01:42:37 +0000
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